How to install Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04

Drupal is very popular and easy to use open-source CMS (content management system ) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
To install Drupal 7 on an Ubuntu VPS follow the very easy steps described below.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Ubuntu based virtual server.
At the time of writing this tutorial, Drupal 7.28 is the latest stable version available and it requires:

Make the document root and the Drupal files and directories in it writable by the Apache service which is running as user ‘www-data’ and group ‘www-data’ by executing the following command:

chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/drupal/

Open your favorite web browser, navigate to http://your-domain.com and follow the easy instructions. That is it. The Drupal 7 installation is now complete.

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Thanks – I found this very helpful indeed. A few things to consider adding to make the guide more comprehensive…

Installation also necessitates using ‘chmod’ to make the necessary directories and files writeable, and then copying ‘your-domain/sites/default/default.settings.php’ to ‘your-domain/sites/default/settings.php’ as set out in Step 3 of the Drupal Installation Guide (https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install) before pointing your browser at ‘your-domain/install.php’ to complete the installation.